BREATHLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathlessness mean? 

• BREATHLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun BREATHLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. a dyspneic condition

  Familiarity information: BREATHLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dyspneic condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

breathlessness; shortness of breath; SOB

Hypernyms ("breathlessness" is a kind of...):

dyspnea; dyspnoea (difficult or labored respiration)

Derivation:

breathless (appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse)

breathless (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)

 Context examples 

A standardized rating scale developed by Mahler and Wells in 1988, which is a general scale used to measure the rating of dyspnea or breathlessness.

(Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale - Description of breathlessness.

(MMRC - Description of Level of Breathlessness, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Episodic breathlessness is seen in patients with lung cancer or other lung diseases, and in some heart conditions.

(Episodic breathlessness, NCI Dictionary)

A questionnaire designed by the American Thoracic Society that assesses cough, phlegm, wheezing, breathlessness, illness and risk factors.

(ATS-DLD-78 Adult Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you suffer from breathlessness when you laugh?

(AQ20 - Suffer From Breathlessness When Laugh, NCI Thesaurus)